{"id":371792,"date":"2026-03-29T19:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/371792\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T19:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:10:21","slug":"from-forest-raves-on-a-welsh-island-to-barn-dancing-in-birmingham-our-guide-to-the-best-british-arts-and-music-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/371792\/","title":{"rendered":"From forest raves on a Welsh island to barn dancing in Birmingham \u2013 our guide to the best British arts and music festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nFrom Scottish islands to inner-city parks, this summer there\u2019s a line-up to excite all music fans\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Revellers arrive at TRNSMT Festival 2025 at Glasgow Green in July 2025. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SF TRNSMT 2.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Revellers arrive at TRNSMT Festival 2025 at Glasgow Green in July 2025. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">While Glastonbury is taking a well-earned rest in 2026 (its fallow years are roughly every five years), there are plenty of other \u00adfestivals this summer that are well worth the short hop over the Irish Sea. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">From metal riffs in the midlands to folk festivals on windswept Scottish Islands, almost every genre is celebrated and good times are promised all round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Scottish islands to inner-city parks, this summer there\u2019s a line-up to excite all music fans Revellers arrive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,10366,6992],"class_list":["post-371792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kneecap","tag-people-culture-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}